The Good Wife (Season 1, eps 15-22)
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cahn 1x15"Bang": OMG Eli Gold. AHAHAHAHA. Also, Diane just got compared to Sarah Palin? HEE. ...Also, is every single conversation in this episode with double layers to it? Oh Will-and-Alicia. Don't. Don't go there! (I was mildly spoiled for this, by which I mean I have a vague idea what's going to happen.) If it does happen, I get it, I understand, I really do, but... don't.
1x16 "Fleas": I KNEW it wasn't Cary. Not his style. Saint Alicia, not his style. No, no, he'd stab her in the back and smile, but he'd do it for something tangible and he'd play by the rules. This kind of catty thing just to poke at her, no. Oh, Alicia. I hope you apologize to him. Also? Will/Diane partnership is totally my non-romantic OTP for this show. No romantic vibe between them whatsoever, so much so that they totally joke about it. I also love how they're the only "couple" on this show that really has the knock-down drag-out fights that all the couples, romantic and not, need to have and are not really having, and they actually resolve things by doing so. Also! I guess the solution to unstable equilibrium = triangle! I HOPE SO. DO NOT DEPRIVE ME OF MY WILL/DIANE, SHOW. Also, I repeat: Eli Gold, HEE. Also also Murky Complicated Ethical Things OH MY HEART.
1x17 "Heart": Oh, it's the pregnant lawyer now with a baby I LOVE HER IN A TOTALLY EVIL WAY! So I have no idea why Will doesn't keep bringing up the 68 other couples in the same situation to EvilBaby!Lawyer. (Huh. I didn't meant to imply the baby was evil, but that is an unexpected bonus, so I shall let it stand.) Also, whoa, Christianity portrayed in a sensitive and nuanced fashion on a show about lawyers and politicians WHAT IS THIS SHOW. Also even more than that, I loved loved LOVED the scene between Peter and Will because it really played up the kind of show this is not, the show that is all about the powerful men talking while the woman is hidden in the corner, bringing the men coffee, silent, unimportant. It's a shock to the system, actually, because the show is so much not about that that it's a little like entering a foreign country. What is this place? And then Will and Peter both bring it back to Alicia (and Kalinda!), and we all breathe a sigh of relief. (While still being disturbed, because it's brought home to us how easily it can shift back to that, if the show weren't being so careful not to go there. It's the men who carelessly allow Alicia to play again.) OH THIS SHOW. Also, apparently Will is Logan. I, uh. Suddenly like Will less, now that I've made that comparison? Alicia is no Veronica, though, besides that core of flaming integrity both of them have. ...And the kiss. And the hot sex. I just totally get it. I understand. I really, really do. But OH ALICIA. OH WILL. OH PETER.
1x18 "Doubt": Oh it's my favorite judge! I mean, besides Abernathy. YAY! No, actually, this guy is my favorite. I love how he's always totally mocking both lawyers. I'm sad Diane turns out to be boringly straight after all, and attracted to ballistics guy (although I do like him a LOT, there were a lot of murky hormones in this one, on everyone's side, hi Alicia and Will!), but it was just about worth it to see her casually stride by his courtroom and then say she was in a hurry and GO BACK THE WAY SHE CAME. Let me give you a hint, Diane: this guy studies trajectories for a living. HE IS NOT FOOLED. You might as well come out and say you like him! Also, dear SGU, THIS is fine directing, not whatever crap you are doing with shaky cameras. Also, kill me, why don't you, show? I have the bad feeling this is just a prelude to Our Heroes starting to lose things over and over OUCH I was really enjoying them winning. Also THERE YOU ARE CARY MISSED YOU!
1x19 "Boom": So did we even find out how the trial ended, or is that for the next episode? Do I even remember what the trial was about after OMG STERN and OMG ALICIA YOU ARE COLD (re: Stern, I mean) and ELI GOLD I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF HIM and ELI AND JACKIE HAHAHAHAHAHA BEST THING EVER MORE PLEASE and that super-tense scene with Peter and Kozko and Gold like some sort of dark avenging angel above them and I don't care if the choir singing "Ain't gonna study war no more" is totally obvious, it is also just great. (Another memo to SGU! This? Is good use of music.) Also WHAT IS THIS CARY? (I kind of sort of wish Cary had gone over to Stern's firm. It would have been a perfect move for him! I still don't really understand why he didn't.) Also, while I get why Alicia felt so betrayed, HELLO YOU JUST TOOK DOWN A MAN WITH DEMENTIA, I don't see that you have room to talk. (Also, OH PETER, of course.) ALSO ALSO. Will/Diane, let me just say how it made me all SQUEE with OTP-ness how they were standing together like the unified team they are (you know, when they're not busy backstabbing), and how that contrasts, again, to every other pair on this show, romantic or not, especially in this episode. (Oh! Except for Gold-Peter. ALL THE FEELS about Gold! But that's more of an impersonal thing.)
1x20 "Mock": Hm. Not a huge fan of this episode? But let us now take it for granted that WILL/DIANE NONROMANTIC SQUEE every time they're on the screen, ok? Do I even need to say this anymore? Also, yay Kalinda/Alicia!
1x21 "Unplugged": Moral of this story: be nice to your admin assistants! THEY KNOW ALL. (D also cultivates them because they also know where and when the free food is! But I digress.) And, hm, I wasn't going to say more about my utter love for W***/D****, but let me just say that I wasn't on board with Diane way back in the pilot (I was worried she was going to be the woman who only pays lip service to idealism and feminism and mentoring other women), but NOW SO MUCH LOVE. Also, let us take it for granted: I ADORE Eli Gold! "Are we talking about you or me?" "This is my kind and understanding face." BWAHAHAHAHA. "We're like family, right?" (...someone needs to write a crackfic with Eli and Alicia as suspicious parental types negotiating custody of Peter and/or anthropomorphic!campaign, with Alicia/Kalinda and Eli-Kalinda interaction as a bonus. JUST SAYING.) Also, this? is Cary's style. CARY. CARY!
1x22: COLIN SWEENEY. I am sad that it turns out he did the earlier thing (which I totally believe, although I could make a case for it being ambiguous, I... won't). AGH my confused conflicting feelings toward Sweeney, who is brilliantly acted. OMG WILL, stop infantilizing Alicia! Would you ever do this to Diane? No you would not! Also all my love to G***! The things that man can do with one canny glance... But what's wrong with his hair? The smackdown of the lawyer with the Kozko thing was awesome. CARY! AWWWW! Interestingly, I thought this one had really strong plot but I don't have as much to say about the character interaction (not that it wasn't brilliant, mostly that I thought it was setting up things, like 1x23), whereas mostly I'm the other way around with the episodes.
1x23 "Running": I feel kinda sorry for Cary, but he makes a GREAT villain, I have to say. Gold/Jackie FOR THE WIN. ALWAYS. "Shalom." HEE. It is sort of hilarious to me that in Will/Alicia, Will is the idealistic one in the relationship. He totally is. (Also, Will with the $8000 wine in the mug is hilarious!) Hi Ballistics Guy! Now that I'm resigned to Diane being straight, I'm totally into them because they're just soooo cute. I found Diane pulverizing Ballistic Guy's testimony really hot (and so did he, apparently). Also in terms of romance: KALINDA/EVERYBODY. Kalinda/Alicia! (awwww!) Kalinda/FBI!woman! Kalinda/DetectiveGuy! (sorry, I don't know anyone's name...) Also, Peter and Alicia are hashing out whether she's going to support him and whether she's going to work ONE HOUR before his press conference? You know what I'm going to say, but I'm going to say it anyway: Will and Diane would have fought and resolved such an issue MONTHS beforehand.
In conclusion: nonromantic OTP: Will/Diane! Romantic many-TP: Kalinda/Everyone!
1x16 "Fleas": I KNEW it wasn't Cary. Not his style. Saint Alicia, not his style. No, no, he'd stab her in the back and smile, but he'd do it for something tangible and he'd play by the rules. This kind of catty thing just to poke at her, no. Oh, Alicia. I hope you apologize to him. Also? Will/Diane partnership is totally my non-romantic OTP for this show. No romantic vibe between them whatsoever, so much so that they totally joke about it. I also love how they're the only "couple" on this show that really has the knock-down drag-out fights that all the couples, romantic and not, need to have and are not really having, and they actually resolve things by doing so. Also! I guess the solution to unstable equilibrium = triangle! I HOPE SO. DO NOT DEPRIVE ME OF MY WILL/DIANE, SHOW. Also, I repeat: Eli Gold, HEE. Also also Murky Complicated Ethical Things OH MY HEART.
1x17 "Heart": Oh, it's the pregnant lawyer now with a baby I LOVE HER IN A TOTALLY EVIL WAY! So I have no idea why Will doesn't keep bringing up the 68 other couples in the same situation to EvilBaby!Lawyer. (Huh. I didn't meant to imply the baby was evil, but that is an unexpected bonus, so I shall let it stand.) Also, whoa, Christianity portrayed in a sensitive and nuanced fashion on a show about lawyers and politicians WHAT IS THIS SHOW. Also even more than that, I loved loved LOVED the scene between Peter and Will because it really played up the kind of show this is not, the show that is all about the powerful men talking while the woman is hidden in the corner, bringing the men coffee, silent, unimportant. It's a shock to the system, actually, because the show is so much not about that that it's a little like entering a foreign country. What is this place? And then Will and Peter both bring it back to Alicia (and Kalinda!), and we all breathe a sigh of relief. (While still being disturbed, because it's brought home to us how easily it can shift back to that, if the show weren't being so careful not to go there. It's the men who carelessly allow Alicia to play again.) OH THIS SHOW. Also, apparently Will is Logan. I, uh. Suddenly like Will less, now that I've made that comparison? Alicia is no Veronica, though, besides that core of flaming integrity both of them have. ...And the kiss. And the hot sex. I just totally get it. I understand. I really, really do. But OH ALICIA. OH WILL. OH PETER.
1x18 "Doubt": Oh it's my favorite judge! I mean, besides Abernathy. YAY! No, actually, this guy is my favorite. I love how he's always totally mocking both lawyers. I'm sad Diane turns out to be boringly straight after all, and attracted to ballistics guy (although I do like him a LOT, there were a lot of murky hormones in this one, on everyone's side, hi Alicia and Will!), but it was just about worth it to see her casually stride by his courtroom and then say she was in a hurry and GO BACK THE WAY SHE CAME. Let me give you a hint, Diane: this guy studies trajectories for a living. HE IS NOT FOOLED. You might as well come out and say you like him! Also, dear SGU, THIS is fine directing, not whatever crap you are doing with shaky cameras. Also, kill me, why don't you, show? I have the bad feeling this is just a prelude to Our Heroes starting to lose things over and over OUCH I was really enjoying them winning. Also THERE YOU ARE CARY MISSED YOU!
1x19 "Boom": So did we even find out how the trial ended, or is that for the next episode? Do I even remember what the trial was about after OMG STERN and OMG ALICIA YOU ARE COLD (re: Stern, I mean) and ELI GOLD I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF HIM and ELI AND JACKIE HAHAHAHAHAHA BEST THING EVER MORE PLEASE and that super-tense scene with Peter and Kozko and Gold like some sort of dark avenging angel above them and I don't care if the choir singing "Ain't gonna study war no more" is totally obvious, it is also just great. (Another memo to SGU! This? Is good use of music.) Also WHAT IS THIS CARY? (I kind of sort of wish Cary had gone over to Stern's firm. It would have been a perfect move for him! I still don't really understand why he didn't.) Also, while I get why Alicia felt so betrayed, HELLO YOU JUST TOOK DOWN A MAN WITH DEMENTIA, I don't see that you have room to talk. (Also, OH PETER, of course.) ALSO ALSO. Will/Diane, let me just say how it made me all SQUEE with OTP-ness how they were standing together like the unified team they are (you know, when they're not busy backstabbing), and how that contrasts, again, to every other pair on this show, romantic or not, especially in this episode. (Oh! Except for Gold-Peter. ALL THE FEELS about Gold! But that's more of an impersonal thing.)
1x20 "Mock": Hm. Not a huge fan of this episode? But let us now take it for granted that WILL/DIANE NONROMANTIC SQUEE every time they're on the screen, ok? Do I even need to say this anymore? Also, yay Kalinda/Alicia!
1x21 "Unplugged": Moral of this story: be nice to your admin assistants! THEY KNOW ALL. (D also cultivates them because they also know where and when the free food is! But I digress.) And, hm, I wasn't going to say more about my utter love for W***/D****, but let me just say that I wasn't on board with Diane way back in the pilot (I was worried she was going to be the woman who only pays lip service to idealism and feminism and mentoring other women), but NOW SO MUCH LOVE. Also, let us take it for granted: I ADORE Eli Gold! "Are we talking about you or me?" "This is my kind and understanding face." BWAHAHAHAHA. "We're like family, right?" (...someone needs to write a crackfic with Eli and Alicia as suspicious parental types negotiating custody of Peter and/or anthropomorphic!campaign, with Alicia/Kalinda and Eli-Kalinda interaction as a bonus. JUST SAYING.) Also, this? is Cary's style. CARY. CARY!
1x22: COLIN SWEENEY. I am sad that it turns out he did the earlier thing (which I totally believe, although I could make a case for it being ambiguous, I... won't). AGH my confused conflicting feelings toward Sweeney, who is brilliantly acted. OMG WILL, stop infantilizing Alicia! Would you ever do this to Diane? No you would not! Also all my love to G***! The things that man can do with one canny glance... But what's wrong with his hair? The smackdown of the lawyer with the Kozko thing was awesome. CARY! AWWWW! Interestingly, I thought this one had really strong plot but I don't have as much to say about the character interaction (not that it wasn't brilliant, mostly that I thought it was setting up things, like 1x23), whereas mostly I'm the other way around with the episodes.
1x23 "Running": I feel kinda sorry for Cary, but he makes a GREAT villain, I have to say. Gold/Jackie FOR THE WIN. ALWAYS. "Shalom." HEE. It is sort of hilarious to me that in Will/Alicia, Will is the idealistic one in the relationship. He totally is. (Also, Will with the $8000 wine in the mug is hilarious!) Hi Ballistics Guy! Now that I'm resigned to Diane being straight, I'm totally into them because they're just soooo cute. I found Diane pulverizing Ballistic Guy's testimony really hot (and so did he, apparently). Also in terms of romance: KALINDA/EVERYBODY. Kalinda/Alicia! (awwww!) Kalinda/FBI!woman! Kalinda/DetectiveGuy! (sorry, I don't know anyone's name...) Also, Peter and Alicia are hashing out whether she's going to support him and whether she's going to work ONE HOUR before his press conference? You know what I'm going to say, but I'm going to say it anyway: Will and Diane would have fought and resolved such an issue MONTHS beforehand.
In conclusion: nonromantic OTP: Will/Diane! Romantic many-TP: Kalinda/Everyone!
